For over 30 years, Nigerian writer Ben Okri has been at the forefront of international literature, but has not attained widespread name recognition in the United States. Other Press wants that to change. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
More than 100 writers, artists, comedians and musicians will voice James Joyce’s seminal novel in celebration of its publication a century agoOne hundred years ago, in February 1922, Sylvia Beach, owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company, published James Joyce’s Ulysses, in full, for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-20 09:30:55 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has commissioned poet and novelist Ben Okri to compile an anthology of "inspiring" political poetry, Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many, to publish in spring 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Head of Zeus is to publish a new collection of stories from Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booker winner Ben Okri has won the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for The Age of Magic (Head of Zeus). Okri did not attend the ceremony held last night (3rd December) at the In & Out Club in London, but Laura Palmer, editorial director of Head of Zeus, accepted the prize on his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]